uninhabitably

English

Etymology

uninhabitable +‎ -ly

Adverb

uninhabitably (comparative more uninhabitably, superlative most uninhabitably)

  1. In an uninhabitable way; to an uninhabitable degree.
    It is feared that climate change could make large parts of the earth uninhabitably hot.
    • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 13, p. 303,
      In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major’s cottage.
    • 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” in Arnold Adoff (ed.), Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans, New York: Macmillan, 1970, pp. 10-11,
      We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already rundown.
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